Author

Contributions

  • Howard, Richard, 1929- - Contributor

Publication

2002 - New Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

27,250 words, Guess

Page Count

109 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivetrolley00simo
  • ISBN-101565847342
  • ISBN-139781565847347
  • LibraryThing939285
  • Goodreads3010602
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Classifications

  • DDC843/.914
  • LCCPQ2637.I547 T6813 2002
  • LCCPQ2637.I547T6813

Description

"Claude Simon, an author and a cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. Passing back and forth between vine-covered hills, the trolley punctuates the trivial or cruel events of many lives, while action unfolds at the shore, in the gradually modernizing town, on a tennis court, and in a country villa. Elsewhere, life in all its fragility persists in the pavilions and labyrinthine corridors of a hospital, where our narrator now travels on a wheeled hospital bed, set to begin a new voyage into old age. When coincidences unite the two trajectories, the story becomes a fugue of memory that has delighted critics and made the book an immediate bestseller in France."--BOOK JACKET.

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